1.) Your SVP (highest ranking officer) of Student Finance Operations (Kim Dean) reports to a CCi executive.
2.) Socle employees were subject to the same compensation reductions as the rest of CCi.
3.) You have no "articles of incorporation" filed in any state. Whether you are General Electric or M&P's café, you have to file the articles. Whether or not the firm is publicly traded or closely held, SE listing (or inclination to do so) has nothing to do with your establishment with the IRS or state departments of revenue. Socle has never legally separated itself from CCi, nor as it made any initiatives to do so.
4.) Socle employees and Everest Online (sub-division of CCi) share the same floor space in Colorado Springs. If Socle is a separate entity, how can they violate FERPA regulations by sharing common floor space with Everest University Online.
5.) Socle commands unilateral directive/approval over training materials and job aids for student finance processes within the school.
Management may have used sovereignty as a placation tool, but Socle is very much a part of CSC. ITs only difference is that it was the only CCi facet of operations that was able to implement the ASO (Administrative Services Model) that David P. Planed for the whole corporation. Regardless, Socle is CCi, and I hope someone can prove the contrary.